Research on Reforms, a research group in New Orleans, reviewed the latest state test scores and school grades.
The author of the report and one of the founders of the organization, Charles Hatfield, can’t understand why New Orleans has been treated by its champions as a national model.
Here is his overview of the state data:
| Recovery School District in New Orleans:
National Model for Reform or District in Academic Crisis? The 2012 achievement results for the RSD-NO show that after 7 years of operation, it still ranks among the lowest of the 71 Louisiana school districts; 83% of its schools were labeled with a “D” or “F”; and 79% of its students attended schools labeled as a “D” or “F”. Is this the type of school district that should be elevated as a model for other cities? ROR thinks not!
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The future for Bridgeport, CT under the “leadership” of Paul Vallas…too bad Sandy didn’t whisk him away.
If charter school gets a D or F, does that mean it has to become a public school???!! Oh, of course not, it should double down and be a for-profit charter!
If Hatfield had reported his data on RSD-NO schools in the way Jindal marketed his denounced voucher model, his (Hatfield) numbers would contain C, D & F schools together as opposed to only D & F schools together. That would have made Hatfield’s results more alarming in the same way Jindal created a crisis of need to gain support for vouchers.
Hatfield was fair and kind. Jindal was…..